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#1. God turns clouds inside out to make fluffy beds for the dogs in Dog Heaven, and when they are tired from running and barking and eating ham-sandwich biscuits, the dogs find a cloud bed for sleeping. God watches over each one of them. And there are no bad dreams.

Cynthia Rylant

#2. Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.

Steven Pinker

#3. Odd, some might think. Why someone would need to travel so far to find oneself. Surely a look in the mirror would suffice, and wouldn't that be cheaper too? But the mirror lies, and the eyes that do the looking conspire too.

Farish A. Noor

#4. Can I love someone ... and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

Susan Sontag

#5. Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'

Nathan Myhrvold

#6. Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.

Plautus

#7. Acting takes so much energy.

Marian Seldes

#8. There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.

Jasmine Guy

#9. It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.

Lenny Kravitz

#10. The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#11. I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness.

Jan Morris